{"id":540601,"date":"2026-04-20T06:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T06:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/540601\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T06:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T06:45:08","slug":"great-yarmouth-residents-experiencing-high-levels-of-debt-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/540601\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Yarmouth residents experiencing high levels of debt issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">National Debtline, which offers free advice nationally, believes more people will fall into financial difficulty in the coming months due to global events affecting the cost of living.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is urging people to seek support before reaching crisis point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Grace Brownfield, from National Debtline, told BBC Radio Norfolk: &#8220;Unfortunately we are seeing people falling into debt for the first time because costs have been so high.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There is often more support than people realise, but it can be quite difficult to navigate what support is available and what you are eligible for.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That is where debt advice charities can really help.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mark Hitchcock, chief executive of Norfolk Citizens Advice, added: &#8220;My colleagues are very welcoming people, they are not going to increase your stress or embarrassment or shame.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They will go through the issues, they&#8217;ll understand the background to your budget and they will look at a range of different options available, like Breathing Space, for those who are facing significant debt.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"National Debtline, which offers free advice nationally, believes more people will fall into financial difficulty in the coming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-540601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}